Foraminifera taxon details
Elphidium macellum (Fichtel & Moll, 1798)
113276 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:113276)
accepted
Species
Nautilus macellum Fichtel & Moll, 1798 · unaccepted (foraminifer erroneously described...)
foraminifer erroneously described in a mollusc genus
Nautilus macellus Fichtel & Moll, 1798 · unaccepted (foraminifer erroneously described...)
foraminifer erroneously described in a mollusc genus
Nautilus macellus var. beta Fichtel & Moll, 1798 · unaccepted (foraminifer erroneously described...)
foraminifer erroneously described in a mollusc genus
Polystomella macella (Fichtel & Moll, 1798) · unaccepted
- Subspecies Elphidium macellum subsp. converia Venglinsky, 1962 †
- Variety Elphidium macellum var. maeotica Gerke in Voloshinova & Dain, 1952 †
- Variety Elphidium macellum var. tumidocamerale Bogdanowicz, 1932 †
- Forma Elphidium macellum f. owenianum (d'Orbigny, 1839) accepted as Elphidium owenianum (d'Orbigny, 1839) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
- Variety Elphidium macellum var. aculeatum (Silvestri, 1901) accepted as Elphidium silvestrii Hayward, 1997 in Hayward, Hollis & Grenfell, 1997 accepted as Elphidium strigilatum (Fichtel & Moll, 1798) (unaccepted > junior homonym, Secondary junior homonym of Elphidium aculeatum (d'Orbigny, 1846))
- Variety Elphidium macellum var. limbatum (Chapman, 1907) accepted as Elphidium advenum subsp. limbatum (Chapman, 1907) accepted as Elphidium limbatum (Chapman, 1907) accepted as Elphidium alvarezianum (d'Orbigny, 1839)
marine, fresh, terrestrial
recent + fossil
(of Nautilus macellus Fichtel & Moll, 1798) Fichtel, L. v.; Moll, J. P. C. (1798). Testacea microscopica, aliaque minuta ex generibus Argonauta et Nautilus, ad naturam delineata et descripta. <em>A. Pichler, Wien.</em> xii + 123 pp., 24 pl., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/10295#/summary
page(s): p. 66, pl. 10, figs. e-g; note: TYPE LOCALITY: Mediterranean Sea. [details]
page(s): p. 66, pl. 10, figs. e-g; note: TYPE LOCALITY: Mediterranean Sea. [details]
Hayward, B.W.; Le Coze, F.; Vachard, D.; Gross, O. (2025). World Foraminifera Database. Elphidium macellum (Fichtel & Moll, 1798). Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/foraminifera/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=113276 on 2026-09-11
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(of Nautilus macellus Fichtel & Moll, 1798) Fichtel, L. v.; Moll, J. P. C. (1798). Testacea microscopica, aliaque minuta ex generibus Argonauta et Nautilus, ad naturam delineata et descripta. <em>A. Pichler, Wien.</em> xii + 123 pp., 24 pl., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/10295#/summary
page(s): p. 66, pl. 10, figs. e-g; note: TYPE LOCALITY: Mediterranean Sea. [details]
original description (of Nautilus macellus var. beta Fichtel & Moll, 1798) Fichtel, L. v.; Moll, J. P. C. (1798). Testacea microscopica, aliaque minuta ex generibus Argonauta et Nautilus, ad naturam delineata et descripta. <em>A. Pichler, Wien.</em> xii + 123 pp., 24 pl., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/10295#/summary
page(s): p. 68, pl. 10, figs. h–k. [details]
context source (Deepsea) Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]
context source (WoRCS) Romano, E.; Bergamin, L.; Di Bella, L.; Frezza, V.; Marassich, A.; Pierfranceschi, G.; Provenzani, C. (2020). Benthic foraminifera as proxies of marine influence in the Orosei marine caves, Sardinia, Italy. <em>Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems.</em> 30: 701–716., available online at https://doi.org/10.1002/aqc.3288 [details]
basis of record Gross, O. (2001). Foraminifera, <B><I>in</I></B>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). <i>European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels,</i> 50: pp. 60-75 (look up in IMIS) [details]
additional source Hayward, B.W., Hollis, C.J., Grenfell, H.R. 1997. Recent Elphidiidae (Foraminiferida) of the South-West Pacific and fossil Elphidiidae of New Zealand. Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences, Monograph 16, 166 p. [details] Available for editors
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additional source Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). [Checklist of marine biota of China seas]. <em>China Science Press.</em> 1267 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Sen Gupta, B. K.; Smith, L. E.; Machain-Castillo, M. L. (2009). Foraminifera of the Gulf of Mexico in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. <em>Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas.</em> 87-129. [details] Available for editors [request]
identification resource Weinmann, A. E. (2026). Two centuries of foraminiferal taxonomy: The primary type collection of the Natural History Museum Vienna. <em>Revue de Micropaléontologie.</em> 90: 100907., available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.revmic.2026.100907
page(s): pl. 1, fig. 4 [details] Available for editors [request]
page(s): p. 66, pl. 10, figs. e-g; note: TYPE LOCALITY: Mediterranean Sea. [details]
original description (of Nautilus macellus var. beta Fichtel & Moll, 1798) Fichtel, L. v.; Moll, J. P. C. (1798). Testacea microscopica, aliaque minuta ex generibus Argonauta et Nautilus, ad naturam delineata et descripta. <em>A. Pichler, Wien.</em> xii + 123 pp., 24 pl., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/10295#/summary
page(s): p. 68, pl. 10, figs. h–k. [details]
context source (Deepsea) Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]
context source (WoRCS) Romano, E.; Bergamin, L.; Di Bella, L.; Frezza, V.; Marassich, A.; Pierfranceschi, G.; Provenzani, C. (2020). Benthic foraminifera as proxies of marine influence in the Orosei marine caves, Sardinia, Italy. <em>Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems.</em> 30: 701–716., available online at https://doi.org/10.1002/aqc.3288 [details]
basis of record Gross, O. (2001). Foraminifera, <B><I>in</I></B>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). <i>European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels,</i> 50: pp. 60-75 (look up in IMIS) [details]
additional source Hayward, B.W., Hollis, C.J., Grenfell, H.R. 1997. Recent Elphidiidae (Foraminiferida) of the South-West Pacific and fossil Elphidiidae of New Zealand. Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences, Monograph 16, 166 p. [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). [Checklist of marine biota of China seas]. <em>China Science Press.</em> 1267 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Sen Gupta, B. K.; Smith, L. E.; Machain-Castillo, M. L. (2009). Foraminifera of the Gulf of Mexico in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. <em>Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas.</em> 87-129. [details] Available for editors
[request]identification resource Weinmann, A. E. (2026). Two centuries of foraminiferal taxonomy: The primary type collection of the Natural History Museum Vienna. <em>Revue de Micropaléontologie.</em> 90: 100907., available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.revmic.2026.100907
page(s): pl. 1, fig. 4 [details] Available for editors
[request]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (19 publications)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications) (from synonym Nautilus macellum Fichtel & Moll, 1798)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (29 publications) (from synonym Nautilus macellus Fichtel & Moll, 1798)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (67 publications) (from synonym Polystomella macella (Fichtel & Moll, 1798))
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Elphidium macellum)
To GenBank (78 nucleotides; 0 proteins)
To PESI (from synonym Nautilus macellum Fichtel & Moll, 1798)
To PESI
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications) (from synonym Nautilus macellum Fichtel & Moll, 1798)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (29 publications) (from synonym Nautilus macellus Fichtel & Moll, 1798)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (67 publications) (from synonym Polystomella macella (Fichtel & Moll, 1798))
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Elphidium macellum)
To GenBank (78 nucleotides; 0 proteins)
To PESI (from synonym Nautilus macellum Fichtel & Moll, 1798)
To PESI
To ITIS
From editor or global species database
